#395 - Jessie Jo Dillon On Her Idol Being Rude Because of Her Famous Father, Dean Dillon + Writing Songs For George Strait, Old Dominion, Megan Moroney & More + Why She Doesn’t Perform at Writer’s Rounds + Wanting to Run Away from Being a Songwriter + What It's Like Writing a Hit Song

Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Jessie Jo Dillon (@JessieJoDillon) has penned songs recorded by some of the biggest names in today’s music, including Dan + Shay, Maren Morris, Old Dominion, Cole Swindell & many more. She's had 21 cuts since January 2023, and 32 in the last 12 months. She talks to Bobby about how some people were mean to her because her father, Dean Dillon, was a famous songwriter, and how she wasn't taken seriously in the beginning. Jessie Jo Dillon also shares what it was like getting her first major cut recorded by George Strait, and now having some of country's biggest artists record her songs. She'll also explain why even though she was the 2019 winner of Songwriter of The Year, she doesn't like to perform at writers rounds and why she once ran away from the idea of becoming a songwriter. Jessie also shares what needs to go into a song to make it a hit and more!

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0:00.0	She was like, hey, we gotta go back to my hotel. I want to play you something. I had no idea
0:11.2	they'd even cut the song. We're standing in this room, Yisei, Alex, Mike, and Dan. And he's
0:18.4	like, guess who's on 10,000 hours with us? I was like, who? It's Justin Bieber and it's
0:23.4	like, shut up. That is ridiculous.
0:25.5	Welcome to episode 395, Jesse Joe Dylan. This past year has been insane for her. I had to actually
0:33.3	tell her how many cuts from other artists that she's had. She didn't even know. She was like,
0:37.4	oh, wow. Is it feel good? You'll hear it. She's like, yeah, I felt pretty good. I said,
0:41.2	do you know? She's like, really? See, that's how you know things are hitting just right.
0:45.4	But I liked her because even then, you know, like everybody, regardless of how much success you have,
0:50.4	or success you don't have, you kind of still feel like what you felt like before. She's like,
0:54.8	oh, right. I don't really feel like, but really cool conversation. Now let's talk about her because
1:00.3	notable releases 10,000 hours. She wrote this Dan and Shay with Justin Bieber.
1:09.2	We talk about when a song goes pop because that song had so, so, so many streams still does.
1:15.7	Old Dominion memory lane, which is on the chart right now, number 15 or so.
1:23.2	Coleswendale break up in the end.
1:28.4	That was Grammy-nominated ACM nominated. Maren Morris Rich.
1:36.4	In 2010, she got a Grammy nomination for her very first cut, which is why it's like,
1:42.4	okay, rookie year. Let me just take a swim. I'm home run. First bedbat. That's rarely happens.
1:48.5	So it was a song that she wrote with her dad. In case he bethard called, the breath you take,
1:53.2	that George Stray recorded. The song was nominated as best country song at the 2011 awards ceremony.
1:58.1	She had to be like, well, this is easy. Yeah. Well, this is all it takes. Pretty crazy. It's her story.
2:06.4	It's her born and raised in Nashville, moving off, trying to avoid what's in Nashville as far as
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